In our Two Techs on a Quest podcast, two IT technical support heroes embark on an epic quest to rescue other IT professionals and shield them from common IT dangers … like non-optimized infrastructure.
In this episode, our IT heroes seek to help other IT pros optimize their virtual infrastructure, thereby improving the performance of other applications, programs and databases in your infrastructure. Both Hyper...

Migrating your infrastructure to the cloud doesn’t have to be a nightmare, but it does require some planning to pull it off with ease. When migrating virtual machine workloads from an on-premises data center into Azure, the goal is to maintain business continuity by building a hybrid environment that leverages the benefits of running in Azure. But you need to be proactive and ask the right questions to make sure...

Welcome to Episode #2 of Two Techs on a Quest , the Quest podcast where two IT pros embark on an epic quest to provide guidance to those seeking resiliency and security for their infrastructure realms.
In this episode, our heroes find themselves on th...

First things first. What is data archiving? Simply put, it’s a process that takes data that’s no longer in use or has lost its relevance and moves it to lesser expensive storage such as magnetic tape or cheap disk storage. Archived data is usually in a compressed format and may also include deduplication. Archived data can then be accessed at a later date if needed but recovery times are typically quite lengthy...

A backup is a network resource intensive process that can negatively impact employee business needs, thus it is challenging for backup administrators to protect ever growing data capacities without impacting production. New technologies and backup methods must be examined to achieve successful backups for the future.
One proven and successful backup approach is the implementation of LAN-Free backups to disk based PBBA...